Glenelg Oval
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The HY Sparkes Stand (foreground) and Edward Rix Stand (background) at Glenelg Oval
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| Former names | Challenge Recruitment Oval |
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| Location | Glenelg East, South Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°59′1″S 138°31′18″E / 34.98361°S 138.52167°ECoordinates: 34°59′1″S 138°31′18″E / 34.98361°S 138.52167°E |
| Operator | Glenelg Football Club |
| Capacity | 15,000 |
| Field size | Football: 160m x 115m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1920 |
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Glenelg Football Club (SANFL) (1921-present) Glenelg Cricket Club |
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Glenelg Oval (currently Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg and formerly Challenge Recruitment Oval) is located on Brighton Road, Glenelg East, South Australia. The ground is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket and is the home ground for the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL competition. It is also the home of the Glenelg Cricket Club, and hosts local school football matches, with the Glenelg Primary School located beyond the southern end of the ground. with two seated grandstands holding 1,500.
The oval has a current capacity of 15,000 and the entire spectator area on the western side or Brighton Road side of the ground is concrete terracing. This is also where the 500 seat HY Sparkes Stand and the 1,000 seat Edward Rix Stand are located, as well as the Glenelg Cricket Club. The Glenelg Football Club offices, bars and function rooms are located under the Rix Stand. The entire outer side of the ground which extends from goal to goal consists only of grass banking which is less than 5 metres wide on the outer wing. The area behind the southern goals is generally where the Glenelg cheer squad stands for games. At only 160m x 115m Glenelg Oval is among the smallest playing surfaces in the SANFL.
The ground record attendance was set on 20 July 1968 when 17,171 saw Sturt defeat Glenelg by just one point, 13.13 (91) to 13.12 (90).
Glenelg Oval saw the highest ever score kicked by any team in SANFL history when Glenelg defeated Central District 49.23 (317) to 11.13 (79) in Round 18 of the 1975 SANFL season. The 228 point winning margin was also at the time an SANFL record. Tigers champion Full-forward D.K. "Fred" Phillis, a Magarey Medal winner for the Bays in 1969, kicked a Glenelg club record 18 goals in the match. Other stars for Glenelg on that famous day included Graham Cornes, Peter Carey, Peter Marker and John McFarlane. Late in the last quarter McFarlane, who had kicked almost 10 goals for the game, had a shot on goal that would have been the Tigers 50th. The ball hit the post though and was recorded as a point (in Australian Rues Football, if a kicked ball hits the goal posts, even if it then bounces through the goals untouched by any player or bounces back into play, the ball is dead and a point is automatically awarded to the attacking team).
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